Fly by the seat of your pants Meaning Decide a course of action as you go along, using your own initiative and perceptions rather than a pre-determined plan or theory. Origin Early aviation parlance. Aircraft initially had few navigation aids and flying was accomplished by means of the pilot’s judgement.
Archives for 2003
Being Beijing
I’m off to Beijing this time – via Hong Kong. Teaching the class that I attended the other week in Chicago. First time reteaching new material is always fun (and I don’t necessarily mean that literally) – we get to find all the quirks in the material and we usually go in not being 100% … [Read More »]
Nothing to say
You may have noticed that most of my posts of late have been about travel or work (or both !). Unfortunately I am currently paying for haveing the first six months of this year without much in the way of travel for work. Now I have to catch up on it all ! Last week’s … [Read More »]
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
This trip to Chicago I stayed at the Hyatt Regency – a choice made basically by checking hotels that were reasonably close to IBM and which had broadband access in their rooms (it seems that most of them do now in that part of Chicago). Also, being a Hyatt Gold Passport member helped the decision … [Read More »]
Hello from 30,000 feet
I sent a couple of emails while on the flight home from LA to Sydney ! If I had my email interface to my blog set up, I would have written a blog entry directly ! The email system is actually provisioned by the new SMS facility on Qantas international flights (business and first class … [Read More »]
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